Trumpety-Trump

[poliphilo]

An American friend who is distraught about Trump and admires the Clintons is sending me furious emails about how terrible the Republicans are. I don't exactly disagree, but my considered opinion is that the Democrats aren't much better- and anyway Trump is only nominally a Republican- and she won't be having it.  I'm trying to keep my temper but it's hard. Every attempt to mollify or distract or philosophise is met with more shouting. If I do anything but wholeheartedly agree with her I get an essay about how furious she is and how I'm little better than an appeaser of nazis.

We went through a storm of this a few week back- and then it died down because I told her to stop. I've told her again. I don't want to lose her friendship but this isn't how friends behave.

At the moment I'm holding my peace about Trump. He keeps sending out signals- and one tweet contradicts the last and it's hard to say whether this is because he's scatterbrained or because like a World War II bomber trying to confuse enemy radar he's throwing out chaff. I refuse to jump up and down and call him a moron and a nazi because I don't think we have sufficient information yet. Also it's unintelligent. He's a political phenomenon the likes of which we've never seen before- besides being a very odd human being- and shouting out the insults of yesteryear is like firing a shotgun at a distant moving target.

Comments

[sinsterminister.livejournal.com]

Went through the same stuff with Bush, Jr. Most of my friends and family are on the left, and when he was in office, it was nothing but discussion about how it was the end of days, especially after 2004 when he got re-elected.

This will probably be more difficult seeing as they all have access to social media, and they didn't back then.

Personally, Trump seems to be nothing but a bunch of hot air at this point. He talks a lot and makes a lot of grand declarations, but I'm holding off until he actually starts doing things. I think there's a decent chance he's just an empty suit letting more competent people handle his business for him (not much different from HIS business).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Politicians come and go. The world survived George W Bush. I imagine it'll survive Trump too.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

but bush managed to make me homeless

this has me worried.